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Jerry's Place is a non-profit, just-for-fun project. This project and website are not affiliated with, and do not represent Castle Rock Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Columbia TriStar or Sony Pictures Television. I thank the aforementioned parties in advance for understanding this is a fan project, for the fans!

Jerrys Place 2.0 Released!

I'm proud to annouce that JerrysPlaceVR is now available Oculus Rift CV1/DK2 and the HTC Vive. The lighting has also been updated on the DK1 version. While I was hard at work updating the graphics with baked lighting, VRPill of VRChat.com reached out to me through gmiller.net. I worked closely with him and Mr. Q. (also of VRChat) to get the lighting perfected, but even more exciting: getting JerrysPlace into VRChat! That means multiplayer support! VRPill also pushed me to get over 200 of the small items "pick-up-able" in VR! This required revisiting every model and providing bottom and backside textures - which where omitted in the orignal due to them being static scenery. JerrysPlaceVR is now more exciting than ever!

You can download the Stand Alone versions to the right, and if you have a Vive you can pick up objects in the apartment. (Not available in Oculus). If you wish to hang-out with others in Jerrys Apartment, you can find the Seinfeld room in VRChat.com, which also includes the ability to watch YouTube clips on the TV and play Jenga with friends!

About

I've been a fan of Seinfeld for a long time. After purchasing the Oculus rift I started imagining what my first project might be. I decided to pick a project that would gradually introduce me to Unity without being overly complex. I was not new to 3D modeling, however this would be my first project in Unity. I came up with the idea of recreating Jerry's apartment, in it's entirety for virtual reality. Television is virtual reality in some ways. We make believe that Jerry's place is actually a Manhattan studio and Monks Cafe is just down the street. We suspend the reality that his apartment is just a set in Hollywood, with tons of cameras and lighting dangling overhead. I thought it would be a novel virtual reality experience to take a place that only exists in Hollywood magic, and make it for the Oculus Rift as if it were real. Virtual Reality Virtual Reality.

Development

This project was made over the course of one month, by myself. I used Blender exclusively, and all the 3D models were created for this project. I did not download external models or reuse meshes from other projects. (With the exception of SuperMan) As I mentioned earlier, the engine used for this demo is the Unity game engine, which makes developing Virtual Reality compatible software extremely convenient.

I started by scouring the Internet for screen shots of Jerry's apartment but that didn't yield much. Eventually I resorted to screen-capping streaming episodes so I could get detailed images of the various items around the set. I tried to be faithful to the shows original props and it's era, but some things were near impossible to Google. I did a lot of research and tried to find images of the original products used in the show, and modeled around those dimensions, rather than relying solely on blurry screen shots. I found lots of good footage of the bathroom in the episode "The Barber," during the part that Newman enters Jerry's bathroom to find a hair sample. I feel like the main room and the bathroom are very well created, however I could only find one screen shot of Jerry's bedroom, at the end of "The Chicken Roaster." I used a blurry screen grab to texture the painting above his bed, and was able to recreate the bed, sheets and nightstands accurately. Unfortunately, due to the dimensions of the apartment it seems like it would be impossible to actually fit the bedroom the way the show depicts it. It came out cramped, but I'm happy with it.

If I recall correctly, there are about a dozen references to various episodes hidden throughout the apartment, see if you can find them all!

Comments (73)

Amazing Idea! I'd love to try that out. But I can not affort Vr gear, so Inwas wondering is there a version for simple use on a pc or are there plans to do so? I love the VR idea but since not everyone has them I thing sooo many Seinfeld fans would love to walk around in this appartment even of it is just on the screen and not VR.

Did you see that Sony noticed you? Kinda funny. "Is this fan breaking any rules" Pfft. https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/8321 Also, I think this isn't that helpful, but folks in NYC can visit a recreation of the apartment. Maybe someone can get some good video and do some SFM reconstruction? Or at least get good photos of some of the props. Also also, begging again for a cardboard version! Ideally with controller support, but the kinda-std look down to toggle walk would ... Read More

Did you see that Sony noticed you? Kinda funny. "Is this fan breaking any rules" Pfft.

Also, I think this isn't that helpful, but folks in NYC can visit a recreation of the apartment. Maybe someone can get some good video and do some SFM reconstruction? Or at least get good photos of some of the props.

Also also, begging again for a cardboard version! Ideally with controller support, but the kinda-std look down to toggle walk would work, too.

If you realistically model George and Jerry and animate scenes from the show using the original audio, you just might break the Internet. Better yet - if you combined a microphone with the Oculus, you could have it so you could actually play the role of one of the characters. You could enter the scene and read the lines from the script, which would trigger the scene and the other characters would begin interacting with you. Imagine how many classic shows you could insert yourself into and how ... Read More

If you realistically model George and Jerry and animate scenes from the show using the original audio, you just might break the Internet.

Better yet - if you combined a microphone with the Oculus, you could have it so you could actually play the role of one of the characters. You could enter the scene and read the lines from the script, which would trigger the scene and the other characters would begin interacting with you.

Imagine how many classic shows you could insert yourself into and how many different roles you could take on. I'd shell out a shitload of cash for something like this.

The idea of delivering lines in a VR environment was a big part of the novel Ready Player One, check it out, I recommend the audiobook version which won many awards, it's also being turned into a movie directed by Steven Spielberg next year.

This looks super sweet! I don't have an Oculus, so I guess I'd be curious if you might be releasing this for Android or iOS? There are a lot of cardboard-esque headsets out there for cheap, and I totally want to show this to folks.

Also, the speedyshare and torrent links for Mac seem to be broken. Filesnack works, though!

What a dumb thing to say. He created something thats "buzz worthy." You didn't. If someone made a kim kardashian oculus rift game, it would be front page news. If someone made a beautiful amazing recreation of the city of Paris that was the most visually amazing creation ever made for OR...it would NOT be front page news. What gets media coverage isn't about quality, it's about the topic. This is an interesting cool story, even if it's not an amazing technical ... Read More

What a dumb thing to say. He created something thats "buzz worthy." You didn't. If someone made a kim kardashian oculus rift game, it would be front page news. If someone made a beautiful amazing recreation of the city of Paris that was the most visually amazing creation ever made for OR...it would NOT be front page news. What gets media coverage isn't about quality, it's about the topic. This is an interesting cool story, even if it's not an amazing technical accomplishment. If you're a developer because you want to get media coverage, you should at least learn what kinds of things the media is interested in.

Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this but in the actual show Jerry has a wardrobe room inside his bedroom. If you can remember the episode where the virgin chick organised his clothes wardrobe and it was located in his bedroom.